BG3's sci-fi cousin is leaning into the best part of tabletop: improvization

The best moments in any tabletop game don't come from your DM. Their hours of careful planning and months of preparation for a creative and surprising boss are nothing compared to the moment when you take it down with an exploding shield, a clay plesiosaur, and a quick magical incantation. Yes, I'm speaking from experience. This is notoriously more difficult to achieve in a videogame, where your options are coded in ahead of time. However, Starfinder: Afterlight is paying respect to the tabletop shenanigans of its progenitor by letting its actors have the same fun.